Quote from: Dori on May 13, 2015, 09:25:10 PM
Too many people think it's the government that gives them rights.  Some people are now talking about the right for everyone to have a basic income.  I'm assuming they mean getting a check without lifting a finger.

gimics such as "the earned income credit" which redistribute our income taxes to people of lesser means (not even 'poor' anymore)..even if they don't work...has started us on the slippery slope of people having the Belief that the role of goverment is to hand them a check for doing nothing!  You get enough of these people and they will be the voting majority.  If we blindly allow this and every other goverment handout, from Obama phones to two years of unemployment benefits and EBT cards...they will become much more than the 47% Romney said were not going to vote for him (or any other Republican) becaause they may lose some of their income (from our pocketsto their pockets).   Romney was very inarticulate in defining the problem, lumping together everything from social security and VA benefits, aspart of the 47% receiving some sort of entitlement check from the goverment.  The Libtards fail to make a distinction between the something for nothing progrms and those which have been paid for in advance by individuals making a sacrifice!

Quote from: wally on May 14, 2015, 04:26:02 AM
gimics such as "the earned income credit" which redistribute our income taxes to people of lesser means (not even 'poor' anymore)..even if they don't work...has started us on the slippery slope of people having the Belief that the role of goverment is to hand them a check for doing nothing!  You get enough of these people and they will be the voting majority.  If we blindly allow this and every other goverment handout, from Obama phones to two years of unemployment benefits and EBT cards...they will become much more than the 47% Romney said were not going to vote for him (or any other Republican) becaause they may lose some of their income (from our pocketsto their pockets).   Romney was very inarticulate in defining the problem, lumping together everything from social security and VA benefits, aspart of the 47% receiving some sort of entitlement check from the goverment.  The Libtards fail to make a distinction between the something for nothing progrms and those which have been paid for in advance by individuals making a sacrifice!

You are SO right about that.  It used to irk me to death that Romney was SO inept at rightly dividing the truth in statistics!  He was the worst at it.   He was so far removed from reality that there was a disconnect in his understanding of many issues.  And THAT sank his boat!

Quote from: steve folkster on May 13, 2015, 01:33:11 PM
Yeah he is lying opportunist, hardly news.  ALl politicans, or most, are.

Only because certain people still cast their vote for them.  IF we as a people would de-elect some of these habitual liars, and show that no we won't tolerate our representatives in government lying to us, they wouldn't even run.

Quote from: daidalos on May 15, 2015, 06:51:57 AM
Only because certain people still cast their vote for them.  IF we as a people would de-elect some of these habitual liars, and show that no we won't tolerate our representatives in government lying to us, they wouldn't even run.

Worse than that, in their districts they get the majority of the vote.